Economic efficiency and shadow prices of social and biological outputs of village-level organizations of joint forest management in Gujarat, India

Journal of Forest Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 141-160

  Misra, Dinesh ^a   Kant, Shashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Joint forest management; Joint production; Output distance function; Production possibility frontier; Shadow price

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLIC POLICY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY; JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT (JFM); JOINT PRODUCTION; OUTPUT DISTANCE FUNCTION; PRODUCTION POSSIBILITY FRONTIER; SHADOW PRICE;

FORESTRY;

EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATED APPROACH; PRICE DYNAMICS;

ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; LINEAR PROGRAMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTIVITY; REGULATIONS; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; GUJARAT; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 28044456773     PISSN: 11046899     EISSN: 16181530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfe.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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